The cemetery of Roquebrune-sur-Argens, in the Var, was combed through last week, reveals RTL. However, this is not the first time that a cemetery has been inspected in the Dupont de Ligonnès affair.
Thirteen years after what was once called the “Nantes massacre”, the main suspect in the unsolved quintuple murder, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, is still actively being sought. The father, who is suspected of killing his wife and four children between April 3 and 6, 2011, has not given any sign of life since April 15 of that same year. He was then seen in the Var town of Roquebrune-sur-Argens. According to information from RTLthe cemetery of this town of 13,000 inhabitants was searched by agents of the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP) last week.
Several sources, echoed by the radio, report that the Nantes investigating judge in charge of the high-profile Dupont de Ligonnès affair is said to have initiated these new searches. The searches mainly consisted of inspecting numerous graves. The agents thus paid attention to the vault doors that could open and to the appearance of the graves inside. Were they ajar? Could they have allowed someone to hide and kill themselves? The 22 long rifle belonging to Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, used in the quintuple homicide, was also sought by investigators.
The agents of theOCRVP were following the trail of a potential suicide of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès in a burial vault. But the searches reportedly yielded nothing, RTL reports. A similar search had already taken place in this case. In June 2021, the Grimaud cemetery, also in the Var, located around thirty kilometers from Roquebrune-sur-Argens, was inspected.